JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA--(Marketwire - December 7, 2007) - Researched by Industrial Info Resources
(Sugar Land, Texas) -- Italian energy utility Edison (OTC:EDIHF) will
invest $4.4 billion into the electric power sector over the next five
years. Some of the investment will go outside Italy to areas of strategic
interest such as Greece, the Balkans and Turkey where projects have already
made a reasonable amount of progress. About $1 billion of the investment
will go into renewable energy sources.

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